Nancy Pelosi has bipartisan fever

You may be wondering how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered all those Democrat votes to facilitate Monday’s House passage of the debt-ceiling package. Apparently, as Mark Steyn wrote, Pelosi did her magic by warning earlier, “What we’re trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We’re trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.”

In a speech praising bipartisanship, Pelosi also hit Speaker John Boehner saying that he “chose to go to the dark side.”

This piece by Byron York shows that leading Democrats are more likely to go for “bipartisan” debt-ceiling hikes when Democrats are in power. Since 2000,York writes, “Reid never voted to increase the debt ceiling when Republicans were in control of the Senate, and he always voted to increase the debt ceiling when Democrats were in control.”

And:

“As for Obama, there were four votes to raise the debt ceiling when he was in the Senate. He missed two of them, voted no once when Republicans were in charge, and voted yes once when Democrats were in charge.”